Bill Warner, PhD: The Not So Golden Age of Islam

Let’s talk today about the Islamic Golden
Age. If you start discussing Islam with some intellectuals, they are always going to bring
up the wonderful Golden Age. As a matter fact I stood in a professor’s office in Princeton
University who told me that the high point to all human history was the Golden Age of
Islam in Baghdad. Let’s look at this a little bit. First, this idea of the wonder of the Golden Age in Baghdad came from Europe. In particular, it came from those who were harshly critical of the Catholic Church, people like Voltaire. By building Islam up, they could then point to the dark ages in the Catholic Church and say, “That is so terrible! Look, this is just wonderful!” That’s the contrast they wanted in their attack on the Catholic Church. There’s another reason that we hear about the Golden Age. When we look around us what
do we see that comes out of Islam that is wonderful? What wonderful novel have you read
by a Muslim? I’m a scientist and one of the things that
I keep up with is what are they giving Nobel Prizes for? They do not give Nobel prizes
to Muslim scientists working in Muslim lands. There have been a handful who’ve won Nobel Prizes for science, but they were working with Kafirs, unbelievers, and in a Kafir land. So we see that Islam does not give us a lot of creativity. Taking another example, what wonderful technological device do you use that comes from Islam? There are many Muslims in the computer business, but what great software do you use that comes from Islam? There’s a reason for this and actually the
reason for this comes from, of all things, the Golden Age. But before I get into the Golden Age, I want to show you what else was going on during
this “wonderful” time in human history: that Islam was constantly attacking Europe. I prepared a dynamic battle map which I would like to show you. What you see are battles occurring. You’ll see that there’s an unfolding history. The white dots show the battles happening
in the current twenty-year period. We’re going to show you how Islam is harming Kafirs for the period of 750 -1260 AD, which was the time of the Golden Age. So here we go for our first twenty year period. Now you see another twenty year period. Notice that Islam is projecting force from Baghdad in Iraq across the Mediterranean. Notice how many battles there are. By the way, many of these battles culminate in the taking of slaves. A not largely known fact is that Muslims captured over a million Europeans and brought them into the slave quarters of Islam. Notice that Spain is continually
being hammered and that all of this is happening during the Golden Age of Islam.
You see, one of the reasons that there was a golden age was that Islam was conquering
a lot of territory and they could bring intellectuals from all different cultures together. There
were some good things that happened when these different cultures were brought together,
by force as it were, in Iraq. So these are the wars that Islam was fighting during the golden age. And my question for you is: why are all those battles so golden? Let’s take in another aspect of what was supposed to be so good about the Golden Age. It has been said that they preserved all the Greek and Roman material. They did not preserve it all. They only preserved certain parts of it which was useful for them. They didn’t save any of the literature or the art. As a matter of fact, they destroyed ninety percent of what they found. Why is it that saving 10% of the intellectual
treasure of the classical period called a golden age? What are we to call the Greeks
and Romans who had a hundred percent of it? Why isn’t their era referred to as a Golden
Age? The rest of the doctrine found to have reached the Romans was in the Byzantine Empire. And it finally really got to Europe
when the Muslims crushed Constantinople and the scholars had to flee. So there was some good that was done, but these are more like golden flecks. There were areas in which they did well. There was geography, star maps, mathematics, but it was very limited as to what actually occurred in the Golden Age. The knowledge that was brought forth in the Golden Age was very limited to the area that it was in. By the way one of the things that came out
of the golden age was the philosophy that there is no cause-and-effect and that there
are no natural laws. Let’s go back to the lack of Nobel prizes
in Islamic countries. Do you think that saying there are no natural laws and there is no
cause and effect would make a good scientist? No! Science is based on the search for natural
laws, and is based upon cause-and-effect. So what we can say about the Golden Age is
that there were some golden flecks, but that it was not a golden age. And it all came at
the hands of the suffering of the Kafir. So much for the Golden Age. Thank you

Those who believe that the golden age of Islam is the high point of human history are pro slavery. Comparing "dark" ages of Europe in medieval time when slavery was vanishing in western Europe with the muslim world there victorious wars brought many prisoners (european, indian as well as african) to be used as slaves creating a good life for the muslims says that slavery is necessary to create a better life. However abolition of slavery in Europe laid the foundation to the development of our society which after some 100s years created the industrial revolution. Enlightenment philosophers that created the myth of the islamic golden age in order to paint Christianity as "evil" are responsible for appearance of the myth that created nazism, that the success of the western civilization is due to the people is of a better race and not that we during the "dark" middle ages abolished slavery. http://www.levlin.se

I totally agree. All you have to do is read the book "The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise", by Dario Fernandez-Morera and "The Myth of Muslim Spain", by Serafin Fenjul. They describe the oppresion, the brutality of the conquest and the everyday life of non-Muslims under Muslim rule, among many other subjects

Islam is truly scary. For, exactly like how the German Communists drove Germans, who would not otherwise do so, into the arms of Nazi Party; like so, the Islamists are driving Americans, who would not otherwise do so, into the arms of Christian Fundamentalists. Again, fanaticism of one time, breeds fanaticism of another type. Seems to be quit a dialectic going on here. I even foresee, Mike Pence, running for President on his own ticket. Islamic terrorism may, in fact, turn America into a Christian Theocracy.

We'll find out in 50-100 years if history repeats itself and we go under Islam control. A new golden age? For them again maybe, because they will be in charge. I can't understand parents playing with their childrens' futures and not telling politicians they don't want to play this game.Don't blame me!Bill, BNP. Life Member.

It's the contrary to development in science. Muslims forced non muslim scientists under their ruling to convert into islam. And then…. they banned the science altogether later on. Practically killing science. They did. That's why they are until now so backwards

Obviously you plot, you massacre, you invade, you colonise, you wrote the history and then now you concluded that software, civilisation, sciences & Nobels are all because of Jesus, Europe and catholicisme. What a cabbage argument from this phd in KKK propaganda!

Can you tell us more about the golden age of paedophilia? & the perfidy of the popes who turned the blind eye when Napoleon, Hitler and other despotes/maniacs devoured human beings. Your crazy wars fro the middle ages to now have destroyed so many lives that you need 10 jesuses to forgive you sins.

Where do you stem from? Are you by any chance a white greedy & hungry european imperialiste who invaded a land & massacred its natives. Halilluah!

Irish monks had Greek and Roman philosophers before Mohammed was even born, so if they had them in their far north isolation, it's absurd to think no one else but muslims had them. Read "AD 500" by Simon Young.

The upshot of no cause and effect is that one can purloin the accomplishments of others, claiming them as your own, simply by forcing them to become Muslims. If you then erase 90% of the defeated culture's heritage, no one can disprove your claims of superiority.

They have prospered in the UK and Europe because of our generous benefits. Whilst natives canott afford to have children they have familes with many, many children and have the cheek to thank Allah for it?

I read somewhere that a major cause of the Dark Ages in Europe was not the fall of Rome, but the cutting off of the eastern trade routes by Muslim conquerors, who then monopolized those routes and made themselves rich. Once those former land routes were replaced by European ships, Europe rose and Islam began a slow decline.

Voltaire was critical of both the Catholic church and Islam. He didn't build Islam up. He even had a play about Mohammed and his fanatical followers. The Muslims in France have even tried to have the play banned.

God bless Russia for protecting Christianity when the Muslims invaded Europe and sacked Constantinople. As a Slav (descendent of slaves to muslims) and an Orthodox Christian, I look forward to our reparations from Muslims and return of the sacred Hagia Sophia to its rightful owners.

Maybe those countries had not much ressources or what do you expect from countries like Arabia …sand? What's with the other poor countries in south Africa were no Islam was present? Your theory does not fit. And remember one thing ..there is more than science to build nukes and wage constantly wars in the rest of the world. Is that good science? Also the peace nobel price for Obama said it all… contradiction at it's finest. Disput with no sense.

I think we ALL need to thank the large bodies of water that separate the North American hemisphere from the rest. And salute those few brave souls that made the trek. Otherwise Islam may have infected the entire globe. As it is it's a menace to be taken very seriously. My Portuguese ancestors were the greatest sailors of their time. And while they did it mostly under duress, I think that without their intrepid talents the world may indeed look different than it currently does.

Yeah but you don't understand? There were The Sumerians-Akkadians, the, Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans all under which knowledge increased. Then came The Christians, and knowledge decreased? Oh wait Christians, aren't a "race" Nationality, or Ethnicity! LOL! But a genius on the Internet just told me "I hate to bust your bubble buddy, but Muslims are Caucasians, White. LOL! you mean even The Black Muslims? Lol I told him Muslim isn't a "race" they trace their Heritage back to Ishmael, the son of Abraham, a Semitic Man, and Hagar, an Egyptian Black woman. Then he told me it's not his fault I don't know History? SMH!

Com'on Doc. Warner, are you seriously denying The muSlime Golden Age? You're forgetting That when The mooSlimes Conquered a Nation they Stole All their GOLD! Now admit I proved you wrong you Kaffir! Lol

Jews are heavily overrepresentated in receiving Nobel Prizes. I hate Islam and the muslim invasion to Europe, but I am not sure muslims' lack of winning Nobel Prizes is a valid argument against their intellectual capabilty. I would not be surprised if it was revealed one day that even the Nobel Prize is politizised and corrupt.

Thousands of Muslim scholars and researchers from India to Morocco are filling the laboratories and universities of the west today as well as their engineers in Silicon Valley and elsewhere If it weren’t for Alkhawarizmi الخوارزمي who developed the algorithms in Medieval Baghdad in Dar Alhikma we wouldn’t be using our smartphones today let alone Algebra and Grammar.Even Steve Jobs is of a Muslim biological father whose name is Abdulrahman Aljandali.It seems that even the genes of the Arabs are of better quality because Muslims have always merged and married to other races without hating them as you do.All that American Evangelicans do is hate Muslims and wage wars on the Muslim world and destroy the Middle East for fear that they resurrect their civilisation and legacy again and We Will Do.You are dumb , dull and misleading your dumb and uneducated audience.Don’t miss mentioning the burning of millions of Arabic books by the Christians during la Reconquista in Andalousia.

Every specialist knows that Muslims were before the event of the west and logically it is those who come later who steal from those who were before them.Learn to read Arabic before discussing about the Arab civilisation.

They are hundreds of Muslims scientists who invented medicine astrology and other science. They were number 1 for more then 1000 years.Even the numbers you’re using are Arabic. Who the fuck is that wannabe professor he obviously has no idea what he is talking about. Go look after ibn Sina, al-Chwarizmi who invented algorithms which is the key element for every notebook and pc .

Muslims destroy antiquities. Whenever you look at Egypt and you see all the desecration that's been done it's always been done in the name of Allah and even to this day as they destroy valuable parts of ancient history and ancient civilizations In the name of Allah. To push their narrative you must believe some crazy things and this does not coincide with reality , history , truth.. Why believe in a collective ego lie? Why follow tyrant who beheaded people that didn't believe what he said and was a reapest of women in a pedophile YYY? All this just to subjugate women? All this just to push a evil ideology? The world needs to wake up to what islam is all about there are no moderates! Islam is Cancer.

It's so weird for me.. i've just got to a point that i wanted to know what islam was .. i looked up islamic golden age.. and got to a point .. something positive.. but all of a suddent this video came up.. really attacking and demolishing that era.. what a weird world!

man..I really wish to be smart like you…I am reading your books and after every part I feel o wow..o wow…what a great work you have done for us who are mostly idiots like me who need everything in a platter….thank you so much!!

I can only remember one muslim who had won the Nobel prize for contributing Electroweak interaction and that is Abdus Salam born in British India, current day Pakistan but, muslims don't don't consider him a muslim cause, he was a Ahmadiyya Muslim. So Muslim will never do something good to Humanity unless they stop believing on 14th century pedophile Muhammad and evil Allah and move towards progress.

atheism is the most intolerant religion on earth and killed millions of men women children and it continues to do so , the worst religion on earth is atheism , and if you add all the death from Christianity Islam Jews etc , it will not even approach the huge amount of dead 💀 from atheism fanatics